Overview
- National and local coverage on Friday put the £5,037,792 price tag, about £4,198 per metre, at the center of the row over value for money.
- The 1.2km route runs from Pinson Road past the new Willenhall railway station to Rose Hill and remains only partly complete after more than a year of works.
- Residents cite a disjointed layout that makes users cross the road eight times and complain about narrowed traffic lanes close to homes.
- Local shop staff and a restaurant owner report lost footfall during the roadworks, and a Labour ward councillor called the scheme a waste and urged business compensation.
- Walsall Council leader Adrian Andrew says the Department for Transport’s Active Travel Fund paid for the scheme to make cycling safer and strengthen links across the borough.